Word: paint
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...result is both eccentric and oddly endearing. Kirstein portrays himself as a child with "an inborn greed for artificed splendor," mesmerized by patterns and designs. One of the longest episodes in the book recounts his intense quest for just the right emblem to paint on his canoe paddle at summer camp. Citing an occasion when his father gave him a $20 bill, Kirstein remembers "the papery cash, its tough fibrous thinness inlaid with bits of red and green silk." The dreamy young man did not take much interest in academics, but he passed Harvard's entrance exam anyway. Once enrolled...
...even residents of dorms with less dramatic changes enjoyed the new paint, new heating and electrical systems and new bathroom fixtures brought by the renovations...
...leaks has created an atmosphere of frantic speculation that, combined with a dearth of hard facts, makes for effective psychological war. Amid all the uncertainty, Port-au-Prince is swept by sensational rumors, such as last week's report that the U.S. embassy had been passing out iridescent paint so that Americans could identify their homes to invading troops...
Just as novels by some American veterans paint an unflattering portrait of the U.S. Army, Sorrow of War shows North Vietnamese soldiers taking drugs, gambling and deserting -- depictions that provoked an unusual silence from the government and harsh criticism from some peers in Vietnam. Yet the censors were evidently moved by the book's unflinching sincerity and Ninh's literary gifts. "My book is a reaction against attempts to embellish war," he says, "and to forget the human side...
...money on it, but I do want to take a hell of a lot of money from Singapore's pockets," George Fay told the press. Meanwhile Thursday, Shiu Chi Ho, a 17-year-old from Hong Kong, was lashed six times for the same alleged rash of petty spray-paint vandalism in which Michael Fay claims he took no part. The Ohioan's sentence was knocked down from six to four strokes after President Clinton intervened...